Wednesday, September 20, 2006

WIP Wednesday

I think Margene said it perfectly the other day after she finished her lovely Seraphim. There is an ennui after finishing a beautiful lace project where it's hard to really get into anything else. That's not to say there's nothing to show today. I've actually made a bit of progress on several different things because I haven't been able to stick to just one thing.

For the first couple of days after finishing Icarus, I didn't even feel like knitting, so I played with my Golding spindle and some lovely pink to pink-purple silk I got at this year's MD S&W. Yes, that is tiny thread that I'm making there. I knit with tiny thread, so that's what I spin. It will take a while, but while I'm quoting Margene, "It's the process." You may not believe it, since I do love a finished project, but I am more of a process knitter and spinner. That's probably why I typically can't stick to one project because I need a little lace and some Fair Isle and maybe some socks and spinning. There's always something for me to work on no matter my mood.

Since I just finished a lovely lace project, I really didn't feel the call to laceweight just yet, so it's a good thing I had a couple of non-laceweight projects in the works.The snowman vestand the Wool Peddlar's Shawl (the color of which I just can't seem to really capture no matter how many pictures or playing with Adobe).

I think socks are calling to me again. Not in an obsessive, it's-the-only-thing-I'm-going-to-work-on way like a few months ago, but I have a pair that I came across the other day that really wants to be finished and I have such lovely sock yarn in my stash and there's Lolly's second annual Socktoberfest coming up. (She's up to over 700 participants as of this morning. Wow!)

7 Comments:

700 sock knitters? We are taking over;-)Your spinning is so beautiful! I love to pick up a spindle daily just to have the experience of the process. FI is a good way to follow up lace and Wool Peddler is a little like knitting Seraphim.

I don't think the post-project letdown is limited to lace. I get it on big projects that I'm really into, such as my Knitting Olympics sweater. I don't get it on small projects like socks - maybe that's why I like them.